Neural consequences of religious belief on self-referential processing

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Han, Shihui ^a   Mao, Lihua ^a   Gu, Xiaosi ^a   Zhu, Ying ^a   Ge, Jianqiao ^a   Ma, Yina ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRISTIANITY; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELIGION;

EID: 39049096821     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701469681     Document Type: Article

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